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Texas Longhorns AD DeLoss Dodds supports eight-team playoff

Speaking at the Big 12 spring meetings in Irving, Texas men’s athletics director DeLoss Dodds voiced support for the four-team College Football Playoff, which will go into effect in 2014, and said he’d consider doubling the pool of teams to eight.

“I’m an eight-team kind of person,” Dodds said, saying the higher number would lessen potential controversy. “I think there’ll be a lot of conversation about the fifth team and who didn’t get in and an 11-1 team that didn’t get in because somebody’s 12-0 that maybe wasn’t quite as good as 11-1,” he said. “If you take eight, you’re not going to have that. The ninth team is going to have a concern, but it’s not like the fifth team.”

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